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Would like to hear more about your git with IPFS workflow.

Well it could in theory be that the author of Bitcoin had previously written and released software under their real name but without ever providing the source code for said software, in which case comparing the first binary release of Bitcoin to such executables could give a hint as to who Satoshi is/was.

Also as someone who has a couple of Raspberry Pis in his house, memory card corruption is real and it’s annoying as hell. If I wanted an OpenVPN gateway I would not want to run it on Raspbian. Maybe on a distro that runs purely in memory after boot.

But like the other person said, if you value your time it is almost certainly not worth spending time on setting this up yourself, even if memory card corruption was not an issue.

Well the author did say “if you have a different vision, or opinion, about what Learn Vulkan should be, don't hesitate to contact me as nothing is set in stone yet”, and while I think that may have been primarily about the book/website combo I think now is a perfect time for you to contact the author (contact details on the page) and ask them about including Vulcan compute on the site.

If you bookmark it then your browser will autocomplete when you type “scihub”.

If you bookmark the Wikipedia article as well then you have autocomplete for “sci-hub”.

So then together you have autocomplete for both.

However I predict that the Wikipedia article will outlive the site OP made. It’s a fact of life that most sites (including a bunch I made myself so it’s not meant as any form of criticism) don’t last very long, either because the owner forgets to renew the domain or they’ve lost interest and don’t want to pay for it, or their hosting provider shuts down (don’t think heroku will anytime soon though), or the server they are hosted on has a disk malfunction (probably heroku customers will not suffer from that since I think heroku has a redundant storage solution in place), or the site gets out of date in regards to either the runtime on the server or an external API that is being used.

The license is MIT but not MIT. It’s the MIT license with two additional conditions imposed;

- The one you mentioned about citation.

- “The Software is not used by, in cooperation with, or on behalf of any armed forces, intelligence agencies, reconnaissance agencies, defense agencies, offense agencies or any supplier, contractor, or research associated.”

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/mobisys2018_nexmon_software_de...

Even just the one about citation is problematic but IMO the condition about armed forces and so on is even worse. I kind of see where they are coming from but I wish people just used standard MIT and acknowledged that yes your software might end up being used for something that you do not agree with morally.

And if they are going to impose such restrictions, why stop there? Why not also say that you cannot use the software to transmit for example child pornography? And how about saying that you cannot use it to spread false information, fake news etc?

I would be exaggerating, but not much, if I were to say that as soon as you introduce one or more moral restrictions into a software license, you are implicitly saying that any moral concern not mentioned is ok.

How about terrorism? They didn’t say anything about terrorism so I guess using their software for terror is fine as long as the terrorists are not an “armed force”, an intelligence agency etc.

Technology has infitinite uses, a whole host of which are good, probably as many that are bad, and likewise an uncountable amount of uses that are either neither or both, and very many that will be one thing for some people and the other for other people.

It should in my opinion not be the job of a software license to pass moral judgement. Either you release your software for anyone to use for any purpose under the terms of an unmodified license accepted by the community or you might as well not bother trying to be open source at all.

Probably originally written as a response against C++, Java or C# yes. However it’s also been kept up to date because it mentions Swift, so I think they don’t want to rewrite it in Rust or Go. But I agree that Rust might have been a good fit if SQLite had been created today. There is the point that sibling commenter made about small embedded systems though. But some people work on making Rust useful even for microcontrollers so who knows maybe a SQLite in Rust could have been highly portable too?

> They're stopping ads, not content.

They’ve been removing videos from YouTube also. Which they are free to do, it being their platform, but my point is that they are removing content also.

> Worse, there seems to be no way to completely fix this in Unix-land as of the last time I looked back in the 90’s, when we had to pull a feature in FrameMaker over this.

I had no idea FrameMaker ran on Unix. Apparently it started life on a Sun-2 workstation, and at one point according to Wikipedia, “FrameMaker ran on more than thirteen UNIX platforms, including NeXT Computer's NeXTSTEP and IBM's AIX operating systems”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FrameMaker

It was interesting to read how the port to Windows affected FrameMaker, and to see how long Solaris remained a supported platform.

Thanks. I checked out your site and it mentions open source and commitment to the community but I can’t find the repo for your iOS wallet on https://github.com/O3Labs

I’ve been interested in NEO but not sure where to begin. Do you have any links you could recommend? Also tell a bit more about your company and what you are building if you’d like.

That’s neat would your company consider open sourcing it if I understand correctly that you made it for your own use not to sell it anyway.

I was wondering if it’s possible to use A-frame without the HTML stuff so to speak. Can I sort of just hand meshes and a camera position directly to A-frame? I am writing a video game currently in “fake” 3D with JS and Canvas and once I have the gameplay mechanics down I intend to rewrite it with WebGL and I was wondering if A-frame could then give me the ability to let people experience my game in VR.

> Has anyone thought of this before?

Yes I overheard a conversation between two guys once where one talked about using a hardware pedal with Vim and the other jokingly replied “are you going to install a steering wheel and a gearshift also”.

But in all seriousness I think a good pair of pedals could potentially be nice.

I’ve been using Vim as my primary text editor for 9 years and i soon decided not to maintain a vimrc shortly after I began using Vim because I use a lot of different conputers here and there. That has worked out perfectly fine for me.

OTOH I’ve been using the Dvorak keyboard layout and custom keyboards for the same period of time but usually I get by if I need to type just a little and if I need to type a lot I bring one of my keyboards.

The downsides of Ethereum is discouraging me a bit from developing on their platform. Then again they are the biggest smart contract crypto currency, but maybe it could be worth to build things with another one even so. Could you recommend some with good technical foundations that are ready for use today and with enough documentation that it’s possible to understand? I know Ark plan to but as far as I am aware they have not yet implemented smart contracts. NEO on the other hand I know supports smart contracts today and some different languages. Don’t know what actually building something with NEO is like though. Any one have experience with NEO? Any other crypto currencies with smart contracts?

My Pokémon games still hold their saves, about 20 years after I got them. I turned on my GBC and checked a few months ago and the saves were amazingly still there then.

I want to dump the save files but I haven’t quite found the right equipment at the right price. Does anyone know of some electronics that are not too expensive and that can be used to dump the save games onto a Linux computer?

On mobile the spacing makes it look like the “get in touch” links belong to the next listing instead of the ones they really belong to.

I thought so too originally but if you go to the site it’s actually acceptably fast IMO.

I recently read about a decentralized alternative to YouTube called DTube.

https://d.tube/

https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2018/3/7/17087668/steem...

It’s built on STEEM and IPFS.

> DTube is an application fully written in javascript, that runs in the browser, that allows you to upload and watch videos on top of the IPFS Network. Moreover, it uses STEEM as a database and enables earning [...]

https://steemkr.com/video/@heimindanger/introducing-dtube-a-...

There exists other means of achieving consensus in blockchains than the power eating monster that is proof-of-work [1]. For example, proof-of-stake [2].

We can have our fake internet money and be environmentally responsible too.

[1]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_work

[2]: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ

> The flaw can be exploited only by local attackers, and it also grants access to a low-privileged user account. In spite of this, Cisco has classified the issue as "critical."

I find this reassuring. It is the opposite of downplaying security issues.

That waterbear looks very complex. How did they ever manage to find it?

Anyone who had an interest in computers in the mid 90-s to early 2000-s will remember trial software that was good for 30 days but which, if you set the clock back would give you the corresponding amount of extra time.

I even seem to recall one that when I set the clock back much more than 30 days gave me as many more days beyond the 30 as as much as I had set it back.

Then there were a couple pieces of software that would detect such trickery and which would punish you by taking away the time you had left also if you set back the date before the 30 days were up.

Anyway, with this in mind, the first thing I thought when I read the headlines was, “I wonder if one can get around this by setting the clock back”, and I doubt I was alone in that, so to say that it “probably wasn’t his idea”... I dunno man.

This is cool. I was wondering, though, because it isn’t mentioned — is the music part of her software or was it put on top by the people that interviewed her? My favorite demoscene productions are the ones that include music.

Also, did she upload her work to pouet.net? I think probably she hasn’t but it’d be cool if she did.

PS: Here is the link https://www.lean.org/FuseTalk/Forum/messageview.cfm?catid=49...

What is a temperamental UI? It must have something with UX to do I am sure but can’t find anything on the first page of Google about it aside from one page that mention avoiding UIs to be temperamental but firstly that was all that was said it seems and secondly the forum is was posted on was, ironically, completely broken on mobile such that the text could not be seen. The page had a mobile navigation bar and the zoom set to mobil unchangeable but the content is wide like on a regular monitor and cannot be scrolled into view and additionally there is a sidebar so only the first few letters are visible of each line of text. It was about the worst thing I have ever seen on mobile. Obviously they have wrapped a forum solution in their own templates and their templates are responsive but the forum content is not. So I guess the people that run that site don’t browse their own forum in a mobile browser. Anyway I digress.

It’s a good one. Here it is in full. https://youtu.be/PvceKeHl0Sg

> I had an old post there, but completely re-wrote it last week, keeping only the title and URL.

Shouldn’t you remove the old comments? I’d not like it if I commented on something and the thing that I commented on was changed completely but my comment was kept.

Do you remember the name of the show, or could you find it?